David Byrne and Caetano Veloso to Release Joint Live Album Live at Carnegie Hall

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On March 13, Nonesuch will release a new live album from David Byrne and the Brazilian activist-musician Caetano Veloso. The recordings are drawn from a 2004 acoustic set at New York's Carnegie Hall, which was part of the Veloso-curated Perspectives series.

Both Byrne and Veloso performed solo and together, accompanied by cellist Jaques Morelenbaum and percussionist Mauro Refosco. They played songs from both artists' back catalogs, including several Talking Heads songs.

Later this year, Byrne will publish a new nonfiction book, titled How Music Works, via McSweeney's. The book is Byrne's anthropological treatise on the evolution of music, tackling the ever-looming topic of how to make money as a musician in the current era. "In a beautiful and kind of poetic way, for much of human history, it was thought that the universe was guided by music," Byrne recently told WNYC's Kurt Andersen, discussing the book. "Maybe we should rethink that idea."